Blog – Cy Baker – Award winning artist

I really hope you’re managing to get out there and enjoy the cooler weather? I’m sticking to keeping it nice and short this week as

The visit to Willow Tree Fen may turn out to be our final reserve visit, as part of this project anyway. There is absolutely no

It was an absolute pleasure to meet Matthew Capper at Deeping Lakes. Out of all the fantastic Wildlife Trust staff and volunteers we’d met on

Another reserve that is as fantastic as its name. Far Ings is an incredible place, made up of lakes, reed beds, meadow and scrubland. As

This reserve was all about the grey seals. They visit our coastline every November and December to have their pups and are an absolute joy

One of my priorities for this project is to try and see as many of the huge variety of habitats our wonderful country has to

Stubbornness. Sadly, this is a trait that I have been associated with quite a few times. Being generous, you could say that it’s helped me

This was a bit of a last-minute addition to the project and is probably the newest reserve I’ll ever have the privilege to visit, given

It seems that the 20th of November was all about the landscape. We’d just come from having our minds blown by the beauty of Foulshaw

This is one of those times where I’m going to have to start with an apology, because my skill with words just isn’t enough to

This really was the very definition of spontaneous. We were travelling up on the northern leg of our tour (planning to take in Cumbria, Northumberland

There is going to be a very different vibe to this post as it’s as much about people as it is about what we saw

We had picked this reserve as the description had mentioned ancient Cornish hedgerows. These hedgerows are stone-faced banks that are filled with earth and have

It’s funny how quickly certain reserves become synonymous with certain things in our minds. With Ventongimps Moor (what a fantastic name by the way!) we

The Southwest Coast Path is one of the best known national trails in the UK. It runs for 630 miles from Minehead to Poole Harbour,

If there was ever a reserve steeped in ancient history, this is it. It is essentially open moorland, that was covered in gorgeous flowering gorse

Helman Tor is the second tor we’ve visited as part of this project (the first being Nipstone Rock in Shropshire) and I think they’re now

Our first reserve in Cornwall and it felt a little like a trip down memory lane as I used to come to Cornwall on a